You okay, bro?

It's sort of funny, how my feed is full of people whining that Nostr is Ded 🪦, while the rest of us are off in our little project, quietly turning Nostr into a document database, and feeling quite chipper.

Because this is it. And it is finally happening

That's actually what Nostr is best at: it seamlessly integrates what people are reading and writing with their conversations about it and interactions on it. The documents and the reviews about the document and the highlights on the document and the citations at the document and the references to the document and the media and objects referenced in the document and the ratings of the document... all in one big lump of standardized events. Events that can be reshuffled, rerendered, reordered, refiltered, reanalyzed, replaced, reviewed, re-... you get the idea.

It's not enough to chat. You need stuff to chat about. You need to be able to share documents — news, calendar events, bug reports, product descriptions, wiki pages, academic journals, magazine and blog articles, books, recipes, photo albums — and then chat about that.

The database of living documents

You can now read all of this on:

• Your PC
• Your cellphone or tablet
• Your e-paper reader

Nostr has decoupled the format and the transmission from the content

You can download the document along with everything that touches it and is related to it, in one stream or file. You can archive it all and keep a history of any changes. You can send packages of it to people over SMS, Telegram, GoogleDocs, Signal, Meshtastic, Bluetooth, USB cables, e-mail, fax machines, radio signals, carrier pigeons... and even over relays.

And then someone came along, who didn't know it couldn't be done, and did it.

The reason you haven't had this, until now, is because the vision was so grand, and the mountain of work required to implement it so huge, and the amount of technical and logical expertise so high, that it sounded insane. Like, LOl, nah, never gonna happen.

You had to wait for a bunch of crazy people to come along and simply build it, on their own time and at their own cost. For years.

GM, Nostr. I heard you were ded.

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